Word: antigua
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...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...
Your report "Banking On Secrecy" referred to "offshore financial centers like...Antigua, whose banks have the potential to hide and often help launder billions of dollars for drug cartels, global crime syndicates--and groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization." But the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Financial Action Task Force has found that Antigua and Barbuda is cooperating fully in the fight against money laundering. The governments of the U.S. and Britain agree, removing advisories that had been placed on Antigua and Barbuda...
After the atrocities of Sept. 11, our government did not wait for a request from the U.S. to check bank accounts for identified terrorist organizations and persons. Our financial-intelligence unit conducted a search and exchanged information with U.S. authorities. You misrepresented Antigua and Barbuda and ignored the acknowledged role we have played in combatting financial crime. LIONEL A. HURST, AMBASSADOR Embassy of Antigua and Barbuda Washington...
...join a global crackdown on criminal and terrorist money havens earlier this year. Thirty industrial nations were ready to tighten the screws on offshore financial centers like Liechtenstein and Antigua, whose banks have the potential to hide and often help launder billions of dollars for drug cartels, global crime syndicates--and groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization. Then the Bush Administration took office...
When U.S.-led forces invaded Grenada in 1983, troops from six other tiny Caribbean island nations were right behind the Americans. Last week, at a highly contentious International Whaling Commission meeting in London, Grenada and four of its former invaders - Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines - stood side-by-side with Japan in angry skirmishes with the U.S. and its anti-whaling allies over the future of the earth's largest mammal. Amid allegations that Japan had bought the votes of the five island states, as well as those of St. Kitts and Nevis...